Showing posts with label Peutinger Diagram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peutinger Diagram. Show all posts
2019-04-23

Holy Mountain

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One of the many curious features of the Tabula Peutingeriana is a depiction of Monte Tifata, a holy mountain in Campania, Italy. Tifata is ...
2018-08-31

Flipping Roman Charts

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Erica Naone explores in a recent article why maps of the American colony of Virginia from 1590, 1612 and later years are drawn with west a...
2018-08-07

How Was the Tabula Peutingeriana Made?

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In the 500 years since the rediscovery of the only extant Roman chart of the world, no one has proved how it was made. I am treating that a...
2018-08-01

New Edition of the Tabula Peutingeriana

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The Tabula Peutingeriana is a UNESCO Memory of the World treasure which is the nearest thing to a Roman road-map still in existence.  Today...
2018-02-06

The Animated Tabula

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The latest update to the Tabula Peutingeriana Digital Plot on my website almost doubles the number of animations, and for the first time sho...
2018-02-03

Backbone of Europe

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The oldest chart of the western world, the Tabula Peutingeriana, would be better known to map enthusiasts if it were an approachable documen...
2017-12-20

Two Frances

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My analysis of the Tabula Peutingeriana's western end has yielded a big surprise. To see what this is about, take a glance at how the ma...
2017-11-21

Visual Analytics and the Roman Empire

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For the past four centuries, scholars have analysed the Peutinger Chart by talking and writing about it. This late antique chart of the Rom...
2017-11-07

Pit-bull Professor

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One of the fiercest fights in the history of scholarship opposed two very different men: on the one side a charismatic school science teache...
2017-10-27

Squeezing Secrets from the Peutinger Diagram

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Do all roads lead to Rome? Not with the Peutinger Diagram. In neither sense of the phrase. In Africa as depicted on this extraordinary lat...
2017-10-20

Italy in Color

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I've made some major improvements to the Tabula Peutingeriana Digital Plot . Version 0.64 is the result of several weeks' tinkering ...
2017-09-07

Fresh Life for Roman Map

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The most famous map in the world is the Tabula Peutingeriana , a Roman chart of roads and seas. In 2007, UNESCO placed it on its Memory of ...
2017-08-10

Tuning up the Tabula

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Readers will know I have created a digital surrogate of the Tabula Peutingeriana, the only detailed chart of Latin antiquity to show the lan...
2017-05-09

Moovel Mash-up

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A little over a year ago, the remarkable Roads to Rome map of Europe was published by researchers at Germany-based Moovel Labs. It's an...